What are you GAS'ing for at the moment ?

[DrewJD82]

What's that little JBL pumping out?

I’m not 100% sure, but my guess is it’s a monitor for his “I’m EJ and this is totally batshit crazy….but I’m EJ” solution to mixing the wet effects with his clean amps. A few years ago he started mic’ing his Fenders and putting those mics into a mixer onstage that had his Echoplex and probably the chorus in an aux bus on the mixer, that mixer fed some JBL PA speakers like the one in that pic, which he also mic’d and gave those mics to FOH to blend with his clean tone.

I’m guessing that’s a monitor for the whole fucking PA system he’s using just for his wet mix. On just his clean amps.

tl;dr- EJ has a separate PA onstage he mics to give FOH a wet signal to blend in with his clean amps. Yeah, it makes less sense tl;dr’d.

 

[Achilles]

There's a really old YT video out there of him giving a brief tour of his rehearsal, repair, jam space at that time and at one point the camera guy spots a little plastic practice amp off in the corner on a workbench and asks about it. It was either a setup or EJ had it waiting in his back pocket (this after the 'EJ' can hear the differences between batteries thing was well known). He went off on how the little thing was really the secret behind his tone and that everything else through the years had a been a ruse. The hilarious part was he had one corner of the thing propped up on a matchbook or something and noted that the resulting slight angle of the amp was really his secret!

 

[la szum]

Have to give EJ his props. Everyone thought he was nuts and overly anal when he mentioned that there is
a difference in the sound when using different 9V batteries. Now anyone with a killer FF (or even a not so
killer FF) knows this is accepted, and irrefutable, truth.

 

[hemmelight]

This is the clip! I've marked it to 6:12, the bit you're referring to.

 

[DrewJD82]

I've come to realize Eric's a much funnier guy than we get to see 95% of the time. Kinda like Geddy and Alex say about Neil, he's a really funny guy, just not on camera.



You get little glimpses here and there when he's off the cuff. Never once in my life did I think I'd hear EJ talk about 'hair-o-won"

For the bigger EJ fans, this is worth the watch. It almost seems like a place where you'd eat dinner while catching a show, but it's a guitar clinic....I guess. At some point someone asks him about a pedal or piece of gear and he tells them it's Gain, the Tone Detergent.

 

[la szum]

I wasn't GAS'ing. I swear. I just was going about my day and these fell in my lap and begged
me to come in from the cold for a decent meal and a warm bed.

 

[la szum]

Probably gonna have to find a Strat to put them in, right? Isn't that how this works??

 

[FuzzyAce]

Probably gonna have to find a Strat to put them in, right? Isn't that how this works??

 

[la szum]

Who doesn't need a Strat fitting and correct for every decade.

50's
60's
70's
80's

I'll skip the 2000's.... cuz John Mayer.

 

[JiveTurkey]

Goddammit Ola!

 

[la szum]

Weird. Rabea did an eerily similar episode a couple of days prior to Ola exploring single-coils with gobs of gain.

Probably coincidence, though.

Or it was theme week.

 

[JiveTurkey]

Rabea did an eerily similar episode, and then about a day later Ola dropped that. Just sayin'.

Probably coincidence, though. Yup. Just a coincidence.

Teles can sound gnarly af I love Ola but Rabea is not one I watch. That anti-NDSP bias runs deep

 

[la szum]

Just kind of odd that they go to the exact same territory within a couple of days of one another.

Truth is, I watch neither. I am just a thumbnail Wh*re.

 

[norminal]

Weird. Rabea did an eerily similar episode a couple of days prior to Ola exploring single-coils with gobs of gain.

Probably coincidence, though.

Or it was theme week.

Sounds like a conspiracy.

Someone alert KDH!

 

[sleewell]

another helix LT
another orange ppc 412
a road case for my 5153

 

[Achilles]

Just kind of odd that they go to the exact same territory within a couple of days of one another.

They probably keep an eye on one another and then copy any cool ideas.

 

[hemmelight]

I wanna try out drums, but I've never touched a drum set beyond sitting at a friend's kit like 15 years ago and thinking "yup, this is intimidating."
Thinking of renting an electronic kit for a month from a local shop just for fun to see if I like it.

It's amazing how crap a lot of these kits are, though! The cheapest one I've heard with sounds that don't make me want to barf are minimum $1,500 CAD. I know tons of people just use VST drum sounds via MIDI, but I honestly can't be arsed with that. I want it to be as self-contained as possible for minimum faffing around.

Of course the kit I really like the look and sound of is like three grand. Typical

 

[mbenigni]

No GAS. Currently TASing for an extra 16 extra hours a day or so.

 

[AutomationBias]

Ugh, a Les Paul. I haven't owned a good one in 25+ years, so all I have is fond memories of youthful thrumming. I bought a couple of stinkers about ten years ago that I immediately flipped, but now I'm thinking, "Oh, I bet the Custom Shop models don't suck"

 

[la szum]

I wanna try out drums, but I've never touched a drum set beyond sitting at a friend's kit like 15 years ago and thinking "yup, this is intimidating."
Thinking of renting an electronic kit for a month from a local shop just for fun to see if I like it.

It's amazing how crap a lot of these kits are, though! The cheapest one I've heard with sounds that don't make me want to barf are minimum $1,500 CAD. I know tons of people just use VST drum sounds via MIDI, but I honestly can't be arsed with that. I want it to be as self-contained as possible for minimum faffing around.

Of course the kit I really like the look and sound of is like three grand. Typical

Man, if you have the room and space I say go for it.

Drums are just a lot of dang gone fun, and a lot of it translates to other instruments,
because rhythm and timing.